Climate Change

Billionaires Own US Climate Policy

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything,…

The Case for Solidarity Levies

by Emmanuel Macron, Mia Amor Mottley and William Ruto BAKU – From Bridgetown to Nairobi to Paris, no country is immune to the worsening effects of the climate crisis. With…

The Future Is Named Helene

The messages of Hurricane Helene lie inscribed in the muddy debris of Asheville, North Carolina, and other wrecked towns of Appalachia. Helene, powered by warming waters in the Gulf of…

Doubling Down on ‘Too Much Heat’

A recent Arctic News headline d/d October 4, 2024 refers to one of the most significant climate-related studies this year. It describes in detail the worldwide all-encompassing danger of loss…

Charting a Course for Coastal Resilience

WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly 40% of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas. In addition to being home to 12 of the world’s 15 largest cities, these regions serve as an essential lifeline…

The All-American Ravages of Extreme Weather

Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me recently the impact of Hurricane Helene on rural areas in the southeastern United States. That hurricane and the no-less-devastating…

The New Climate Colonialism

Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) Considered Angola’s crown jewel by many, Lobito is a colorful port city on the country’s scenic Atlantic coast where a…

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Can You Afford Climate Change?

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented…

Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’…

Put a Price on Shipping Emissions

ROSEAU, DOMINICA – For most people, the idea of suddenly losing everything – their home, their possessions, and even their family members and friends – is unthinkable. But, for island…

Shipping Ship

The Need for Methane Targets

by Marcelo Mena and Sarah Ann Smith SANTIAGO/BOSTON – As summer in the northern hemisphere draws to a close, hundreds of temperature records have been broken, and there is a roughly 95%…

Humans Rescue Doomsday Glacier?

It was only 3 years ago when a group of distinguished climate scientists led by Erin C. Pettit (Oregon State University) said Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf of the Thwaites Glacier/Antarctica,…

AI’s Energy Use – a View from Germany

Perhaps such activities as simple as searching on the Internet or sending an email, artificial intelligence or AI depends on data processing centers. These are sizable factory- or better warehouse-like physical structures that house computing machines and other…

The coming North Atlantic deep freeze

In recent years scientists have been watching and measuring the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, (AMOC), what Americans often refer to as the Gulf Stream though that flow is…

Tipping Points – Where Things Stand

Major planetary boundaries that support life are at risk of collapse. This is happening at speeds that climate scientists never thought possible. What are the consequences and what, if anything,…

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